Visiting conference-rival Monticello beat the varsity wrestling team 64-3. “The score really doesn’t show how rough we wrestled, ” said Senor Tim Ruter. The Bison were pinned four times in the match, and forfeit five out of the 14 matches. A bright spot in the meet was  Ruter adding another win under his belt in a 3-2 win over the Magic’s Logan Draack. Ruter remains undefeated with 25 straight wins. “I’m feeling the pressure to win.” said Rutter, “When I’m expected to…

The Buffalo girls basketball team played this past Friday in Cambridge. It was a very close game but the Bison pulled it out 60-55. This win kept the girls perfect 8-0 conference record in tact. They also improved to 14-2 overall. With  the perfect record in conference the Bison are at the top of the Mississippi 8. They look to keep that streak going this week with a game in Monticello on Friday the 29th.…

The Buffalo Nordic Ski team headed to St. Johns on Thursday, January 21st 2010. The girls placed second and the boys placed third overall in the 5k classic race. On the girls Varsity side, the top 5 girls took the places of 5-10. Sophomore Emily Bedker took 5Thoverall with a time of 20:01, and Senior Mandy Samuelson followed shortyafter with a 6Th place time of 20:08. Taking 7Th and 8Th were Senior Megan Ackerman and Junior…

High school sports fill up the week among the days of the high school students. Typically many students gather to the gyms, hockey areas, or even gymnastics gymnasiums to support there fellow classmates and friends, whereas some of us are not. You will always hear the highlights on the sports the following morning but Activities Director Tom Baumann, if you weren’t present at those certain festivity you can’t preview those moments in your head. But…

Buffalo Bison Girls’ Gymnastics team competed against the St. Micheal Knights winning with overall score 12. With Sophomore Paige Habisch competing Varsity all- around and Junior Megan Durst competing combination all around. Sophomore Nadja Vragovic is out with an injury due to a strained hip flexer at the Gustavus Invitational last Saturday during her floor routine with the team had taken 4th in overall. “Every year when we go to Gustavus somebody always ends up…

Social Studies Teacher Laurie Raymond leads the ten members of the Buffalo High School Varsity Mock Trial team out of the courtroom. It is January 14, 2010, and they have just beaten Princeton’s Mock Trial team, winning the Conference Tournament. “Mrs. Raymond is so dedicated to our team,” reveals Junior Sam Kemp, a first year lawyer on the Varsity Defense. “She provides a lot of insight to help us with our material.” Mock trial is quite literally,…

The first day of school next year, there will be 425 new freshman coming into Buffalo High school. The first day of high school is a turning point in a lot of kid’s life’s. Teachers and administrators are excited for this day every year. Registration for classes for freshman was last Tuesday. “Parent nights like registration night, are good first steps for freshman, it’s exciting, a new opportunity for kid’s coming in high school,” said…

Boys Varsity Hockey: The boys varsity hockey team started out their season with extremely intense competition. Resulting in several consecutive losses for their team. However, recently they have begun to do extremely well in their conference, with wins over M.A.M.L. ( Monticello Annandale Maple Lake) and St. Michael-Albertville, they are 2-0 in conference. Sophomore goalie Blake Schmidt was recently mentioned in the Star Tribune for his success in these games, where he had a shut-…

Once a term, CIS Psychology classes have an assignment to “violate the social norm.” While Psychology Teacher Chris Gmach has encouraged students to do other experiments in their social society, this is the first that has been an actual assignment. The assignment is easy: wear something or portray someone you are not. Some students won’t talk all day long, some are acting like lions or wearing monkey suits. All things most people would consider “weird”.…